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Kirtland Air Force Base

Kirtland Air Force Base (IATA: ABQ, ICAO: KABQ) is a United States Air Force base. It is located in the southeast quadrant of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, urban area, adjacent to the Albuquerque International Sunport. The base was named for the early Army aviator Col. Roy C. Kirtland.[2] The military and the international airport share the same runways, making ABQ a joint civil-military airport.

For the civil airport use of this facility, see Albuquerque International Sunport.

Kirtland Air Force Base

35°02′25″N 106°36′33″W / 35.04028°N 106.60917°W / 35.04028; -106.60917

US Air Force base

Department of Defense

US Air Force

Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC)

Operational

www.kirtland.af.mil

1941 (1941)

1942 – present

377th Air Base Wing (Host)

IATA: ABQ, ICAO: KABQ, FAA LID: ABQ, WMO: 723649

1,632.2 metres (5,355 ft) AMSL

Kirtland AFB is the largest installation in Air Force Global Strike Command and sixth largest in the United States Air Force. The base occupies 51,558 acres and employs over 23,000 people, including more than 4,200 active duty and 1,000 Guard, plus 3,200 part-time Reserve personnel.[3] In 2000, Kirtland AFB's economic impact on the City of Albuquerque was over $2.7 billion.


Kirtland is the home of the Air Force Materiel Command's Nuclear Weapons Center (NWC). The NWC's responsibilities include acquisition, modernization and sustainment of nuclear system programs for both the Department of Defense and Department of Energy. The NWC is composed of two wings–the 377th Air Base Wing and 498th Nuclear Systems Wing–along with ten groups and seven squadrons.


Kirtland is home to the 58th Special Operations Wing (58 SOW), an Air Education and Training Command (AETC) unit that provides formal aircraft type/model/series training. The 58 SOW operates the HC-130J, MC-130J, UH-1N Huey, HH-60G Pave Hawk and CV-22 Osprey aircraft. Headquarters, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center is also located at Kirtland AFB. Additionally the 150th Special Operations Wing of the New Mexico Air National Guard, an Air Combat Command (ACC)-gained unit, is also garrisoned at Kirtland.[4]

Primary Flying School

Basic Flying School

Advanced Flying School (including Transition Training)

Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center

Kirtland Air Force Base

United States

New Mexico

Bernalillo

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UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))

UTC-6 (MDT)

Kirtland served as Bagram Air Base in the film (2013).

Lone Survivor

The film Bombardier (1943) was primarily filmed at the base.

RKO Radio Pictures

On the science-fiction television series , part of the episode "Space" takes place on the base.

The X-Files

This was mentioned in the film (1997) as being the place where AWACS planes originated from.

Contact

The character Jane Margolis on the AMC television series says in the episode "Phoenix" of season 2 that she draws tattoos for "college kids and airmen from Kirtland".

Breaking Bad

Kirtland AFB becomes the temporary United States capital after a nuclear blast destroys Washington, D.C., and four other cities in Lee Boyland's "Clash of Civilizations" trilogy.

Kirtland AFB plays a key role in the plot of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs 2023 novel "Dead Mountain"

Kirtland AFB UFO sighting

List of United States Air Force installations

New Mexico World War II Army Airfields

Much of this text in an early version of this article was taken from pages on the , which as a work of the U.S. Government is presumed to be a public domain resource. That information was supplemented by:

Kirtland Air Force Base Website

Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History.  0-89201-092-4.

ISBN

Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-405-12194-6. LCCN 70605402. OCLC 72556.

Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II

Mueller, Robert (1989). Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982. USAF Reference Series, Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History.  0-912799-53-6

ISBN

Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History.  0-912799-12-9.

ISBN

Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites, History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC.  57007862, 1050653629

OCLC

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

Official website

377th Force Support Squadron

airport information for ABQ